Pure red cell aplasia associated with type I autoimmune polyglandular syndrome - Successful response to treatment with mycophenolate mofetil: Case report and review of literature

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 717-720

  Bakrac, Milena ^a   Jurisic, Vladimir ^b   Kosric, Tanja ^c   Popovic, Vera ^a   Pekic, Sandra ^a   Kraguljac, Nada ^a   Colovic, Milica ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^c Inst of Molec Genet/Genet Eng   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUCONAZOLE; HYDROCORTISONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY CANDIDIASIS ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MUTATION; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 34250799093     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2006.042671     Document Type: Article

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